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Blue Silver Linings

“Although seasonal, cost-ineffective, and often buggy and sweaty, few activities rank as highly as fruit picking.”

by Ellen Su on July 28, 2020July 28, 2020

Crook

After Robert Frost

by Lily Hutcheson on February 21, 2025February 21, 2025

Going It Alone

“We aren’t like the stars, so isolated, separated by light years.”

by Katie Duggan on August 10, 2016August 10, 2016

Tell Me Why

Gregg Gillis sits in the library of Terrace Club; a few minutes ago he was eating potatoes. He is of average height and has enormous white teeth. He speaks rapidly and giddily, as though school has just been cancelled.

by Anonymous on April 4, 2007February 26, 2014

Two Truths and a Lie

“Truth number one: this is not a poem about you, I have never written a poem about you, I will never write a poem about you.”

by Zaynab Zaman on August 20, 2017September 4, 2017

A Day, and a Shura, in Zaywalat hawza

If you haven’t seen _The Hurt Locker_ yet, don’t. Watch _Groundhog Day_ instead; it’s much better, and it will also give you a far better sense of what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are like. That’s not an original … Read More

by Wes Morgan on March 31, 2010March 17, 2013

American Goth

The fact that I even own more than one article of lamé from American Apparel is pathetic. Wearing them all in one outfit was basically just a masturbatory statement of my “hipness.”

by staff on October 2, 2008March 17, 2013

Lag Time Blues

The week before the United States general election, we solicited short-form narrative nonfiction submissions from the Nassau Weekly community. We hoped to gather and serialize scenes, images, and glimpses from Election Day and the following week. We asked writers to … Read More

by Elena Eiss, Lillian Paterson on November 21, 2024November 22, 2024

Why Princeton students are like flowers

I went up to a girl who was yelling so loudly and excitedly that I thought I was in an episode of America’s Next Top Model right after the model-hopefuls have found out that they’re going to some foreign country, like Africa or Spain. “What’s the commotion?” I asked as we stood in front of Ivy, half expecting her to tell me that we were all going to Bali together.

by Sabrina Berkowitz on November 6, 2008March 17, 2013

What Would Peter Singer Do?

Peter Singer recast in the role of the ethical organization kid.

by Elliot Ratzman on April 28, 2004March 17, 2013

Best Buddies

What separates us is nothing more than a bunk-bed ladder.

by Mia Salas on September 30, 2018September 29, 2018

Humpalicious Honchos, Bodacious Bigwigs, and Kinky Kingpins

Nefertiti, Egyptian Dominatrix Queen Even in her middle years, this Egyptian queen’s power and dignity were only surpassed by her extreme charisma. The firm jaw, the clear kohl-lined eye, the slightly tilted chin all scream “Lick my sandal, slave!” In … Read More

by Yvon Wang on March 8, 2006March 17, 2013


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